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EAST HARTFORD — Seconds before emergency operators dispatched firefighters to a serious car accident on High Street in July, Deputy Chief Christopher Tardif had all the information he needed at his fingertips. "See, we just heard [the operator] say that she's about to dispatch to an auto accident. We already have that information here. She hasn't event sent it yet," he said, scrolling through an iPad. "It says 'car into a house with rollover and injuries'." Captain Web, a new online communications program for the iPad, instantly received call information from the dispatch system. It also provided a map with the location of the crash, offered...

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